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Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and... Read more

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and... Read more

What would you pay to listen to an episode of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast? Don't panic, I have no plans to start charging for my weekly marketing podcast. On Twitter, I was having some back... Read more

If people (this includes you) don't start paying for content, we will see a lot of key media outlets go away... and this includes the digital ones. That was the message yesterday delivered in the Newsweek article, Save The Media!... Read more

How were the line-ups today outside of the Apple stores? You're going to read, see and hear non-stop coverage of the iPad 2 today (and for the next few days). The bigger news is this: the iPad won't save you.... Read more

The iPad had a good week. No, I'm not talking about the swirling rumors of the iPad 2. Apple let the world know that beyond posting a record profit of six billion dollars in the last three months of 2010... Read more

The question is not if you can make money from Blogging and Podcasting, the question is how. There are many people (and media entities) that make money from Blogging and Podcasting. The challenge is that there are also multiple ways... Read more

Here's a newsflash: people will pay for content online. You may think that the statement above runs contrary to everything we know about the Internet. From music and the torrents to pay walls at newspapers and magazines. Mostly, the people... Read more

Does your company wish there was a place where you could experiment with New Media, Marketing, Advertising and Communications? While attending MediaCamp today in Montreal (as a preamble to PodCamp Montreal), Sylvain Carle (from Praized) suggested that maybe more media... Read more

Going back a few years, the Internet was not considered a credible media source. That changed, but it's changing again. In the early days of online publishing (even pre-Blogging) the simple fact that any one individual could publish their text,... Read more

Did you hear? The future of television is... wait for it... 3D! While everybody is busy running over to their favorite consumer electronics store to pick up a 3-D television (btw, is it just me or do those glasses make... Read more

Would you buy a newspaper? When word got out that the Montreal Gazette was being put up for sale along with the entire Canwest newspaper family, I immediately asked one of my business partners over at Twist Image if our... Read more

For some reason, no one in Social Media is really allowed to make any money. It's verboten. It's against the community spirit. It's the wrong thing to do. That's just, plain stupid. Yes, the new digital channels are primed for... Read more

When was the last time you discovered a new Blog? How did you feel in the first second after you arrived? Confused? Lost? Unsure as to what you were looking at? That's the problem with Blogs today (ok, it's one... Read more

Are people willing to pay for what you do? You can create great content. That content can generate all kinds of traffic and attention. That traffic and attention can bring lots of healthy conversations and comments. Over time, those conversations... Read more

When it comes to the troubles of the newspaper and magazine industry, the greater debate always comes full circle to when/how they will begin to charge for content. Some people call it crazy, others think there is no choice, but... Read more

The days of scoring record profits - year on year - for traditional publishers may be coming to an end. It doesn't mean that they will not make any money. It just means that they will make a lot less... Read more

There has been a lot of talk - both in traditional and online media - about the Government's desire to better understand (and potentially regulate) the many online social channels we use to connect. From Blogs to Twitter, there is... Read more

Marketers are going to be using Social Media a lot more in the coming year. Some of it will just be a re-direction of their advertising dollars, and some of it will be in trying to figure out what other... Read more

With more than ten thousand entries and fewer than fifteen percent being distinguished with an Official Honoree award, I'm proud to announce that our little Blog, Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Blog, took home an "Official Honoree"... Read more